Eric Weinstein sees the world entering its most dangerous stretch since the Cuban missile crisis, with AI the biggest threat of all — bad news for workers, and for anyone counting on institutions to tell the truth.

• Four crises are stacking up at once: AI, Iran, Russia, and China, with a real chance Putin reaches for a nuclear weapon.
• The dollar is propped up by military force keeping oil choke points like the Strait of Hormuz open, and the US is now showing it may not be able to do that.
• AI is the real tsunami because it combines machine intelligence with software that can copy itself — the first technology that threatens every skilled job at once.
• Weinstein calls the AI boom straight-up theft of human work, and wants people paid a cut for it instead of handed a basic income.
• He also says secret government programs built around aliens plainly exist, without claiming aliens themselves are real — and that nobody treating it as interesting is a sign of how broken public debate has become.

Outlook: He expects the race to superintelligence to be won by one of a few labs, with no one in government, business, or academia yet holding serious talks about what comes after.